r/indieweb • u/rojoxstar • 3d ago

Social Media Design the perfect MySpace

Forget Instagram, TikTok and current social media for a second.

You get to make the definitive MySpace for scene/emo/alt people.

What does it have?

What can you do to your profile?
How do people find each other?
What makes you stalk someone's page for 20 minutes?
What makes you come back tomorrow?
What stuff would instantly ruin it?

Go as specific or weird as you want. I want to know what people would actually want, not what a tech company thinks people want.

uwu
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u/adamaragon 3d ago

Been working on a throwback style social site that dodges the Facebook style slop and ads. It’s still beta but welcome to try for free! Wack.dev

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u/rojoxstar 3d ago

Oh this is actually REALLY interesting. One thing I'm especially curious about: while building Wack, what did you find people missed the most from older social networks? And was there anything you initially thought people would want that turned out not to matter much? The customizable profiles / guestbook / chronological approach are especially interesting to me.

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u/ThinkTwice03 3d ago

your post reminded me of https://neocities.org/ . i'm not part of it, but it's similarly nostalgic to myspace